iv, 315 p. ; 24 cm

Rev. ed. of: Gothic drama from Walpole to Shelley. 1947

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-304) and index

Ch. 1. Evans's original introduction : the meaning of Gothic; the Gothic revival; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century drama -- Ch. 2. Antecedents and beginnings : precursors of the Gothic school; Douglas; The countess of Salisbury -- Ch. 3. The first Gothic plays : The mysterious mother; other plays of the decade; Percy -- Ch. 4. Adaptation and Burlesque : the first adaptation of The castle of Otranto; The count of Narbonne; contemporary original Gothic plays; Albina; Gothic elements in comedy; The banditti; other comic plays -- Ch. 5. Full development of Gothic drama before 1792 : Gothic plays, 1784-1792; The carmelite; Vimonda; the regent, Kentish barons, the Gothic villain -- Ch. 6. Ann Radcliffe and Gothic drama : Boaden and Ann Radcliffe; Fontainville forest; Siddons and Ann Radcliffe; Andrews and Ann Radcliffe -- Ch. 7. Gothic and German drama : types of German subliterary fiction; Boaden and a German motif; the real German drama in England -- Ch. 8. Lewis and Gothic drama : The castle spectre; other plays by Lewis; Adelmorn, the outlaw; The wood Daemon; or, One o'clock; lesser plays; the place of Lewis -- Ch. 9. Gothic drama and melodrama : Gothic melodramas; The foundling of the forest; The woodman's hut; burlesque Gothic melodrama -- Ch. 10. Gothic acting drama, 1801-1816 : analysis of four Gothic acting plays; Julian and Agnes; The towers of Urbandine; The curfew; Bertram; or the Castle of St. Aldobrand -- Ch. 11. Joanna Baillie and Gothic drama : general characteristics of Joanna Baillie's plays; Orra -- Ch. 12. Gothic survival in literary drama : literary plays by Wordsworth and Coleridge; The borderers; Remorse; Scott and Gothic drama, Shelley's Cenci; Byron's Manfred -- App. A list of Gothic plays

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